Category: Leadership
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Porcupine Leadership
The mighty lion is often held up as a standard for leaders to follow. He is the master of his domain, and his roar cements his power. Leaders need to be strong. The male lion sits and guards his territory while the lionesses go off and do the work of hunting for everyone. Although, I’m…
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Find and Cater to Your Audience
Kind of crazy, but I have been presenting on leadership and career development for over a decade now. I was taking a walk down memory lane and stumbled across one of my earliest slide decks. I actually thought it was great. Many of the ideas and style carry through to today. The problem was that…
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Ep. 26 A Trauma Based View of the Future of Work
In this episode we examine how the dramatic changes in the world of knowledge work over the past five years can have traumatic effects. Acute Trauma – Life is noticeably different before and after Job Loss, Layoffs, New AI Capabilities Chronic Trauma – Prolonged exposure to a harmful situation Self-doubt, hopelessness, insecurity, fear, negativity about…
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Why Our Language for AI Matters
Describing AI Agents as digital workers who are members of your digital workforce is great marketing. It is also dehumanizing. Analogy is a powerful tool to explain innovation. Referring to something we already know and understand makes it easier to conceptualize novel ideas. There are certainly similarities between tasks currently done by human workers and…
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Be Brave
Sheltering in place is the logical response to a raging storm, But your makeshift cover won’t hold out forever. There is opportunity in the swirling chaos, You must slay some dragons if it’s treasure that you’re after. What’s the worst that can happen? You expose yourself as the fallible human that you are? We need…
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Putting Others at Ease
This is a leadership skill that I don’t see talked about explicitly. When you are in a position of authority or seniority, that position carries a weight. Sometimes that weight is helpful to get things done, but it can also get in the way. We often go into meetings with people who have impressive titles…